Improvement in apparatus for fitting and laying out garments



WILUAM H. MAYER.-

for Fitting and Laying Out Patented Dec. 5, 1871..

Apparatus Garments.

UNITED STATES PATENT QFFIGE.

WILLIAM H. MAYER, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 121,642, dated December 5, 1871 To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. MAYER, of the city of Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New J ersey, have invented anew and Improved Apparatus for Fitting and Laying Out Garments; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing making a part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a view of the apparatus, showing the neck or shoulder-points connected together, and the strap arranged for securin g it to the body. Fig. 2 is a view showing the apparatus spread open, the neck or shoulderpoints being disconnected.

Like letters in both figures of the drawing indicate like parts.

My invention relates to the peculiar arrangement and combination of parts composing the apparatus, so that the same may be adjusted to obtain the exact shape and size of the body or waist in order to insure a perfect fit of the garment, as will be hereinafter more fully explained.

The apparatus is made of any suitable material that will answer the purpose, and is divided into four sections, 1, 2, 3, and 4, cut or made in the shape represented in Fig. 2, and joined together by eyelets and screws, the eyelets a, being fixed in sections 1 2 4 and the screws I) in sections 1 3 4, the screws being passed through the eyelets and screw-nuts c placed over them, which hold the sections tightly together. The eyelets are arranged in a line at suitable distances apart, having opposite each anumber for giving the size of the waist and shoulder, when the screw is fixed in the eyelet bearing upon that number. The number of these eyelets, which will be stamped in the material, as ordinarily, will be arranged or graduated to suit the scale of sizes ordinarily used by tailors or dressmakers. The screws are fastened to sections 1 3 4 by their being passed through the material and then riveted or otherwise made fast to small plates on the under side, the plates being first fastened to the material.

Section 1, or What might be termed the top of gorge or neck, is provided with a scale of sizes, 1 2 3, and also with a hinged plate, d, having three or more slots, 0 e e, in the projecting part thereof. This plate, by introducing the button h attached to section 3 through either one of the slots therein just described, brings the neck or shoulder-points together, as seen in Fig. 1. The apparatus is held to the body, while adjusting it to get the shape thereof, by the strap B, one end of which is fastened to a button, 2', on the back point of section 2 and the other to a button, k, on section 4, the strap being brought around the body, as seen in Fig. 1, and then fastened, the strap, of course, being provided with a sufficient number of holes for securing the apparatus as tightly to the body as may be desired. The buttons h '1' k are pivoted to small round or oval-shaped plates, which are rigidly attached to the material. Section 3 has a shoulder-point, 0, having a scale of sizes, 12 13 14 15 16, and section 2 a back-point, I), having also a scale of sizes, 4 5 6. Section 3, in addition to the scale of sizes mentioned on shoulder-point, has also a scale of sizes atthe lower corner thereof, 22 23 24 25 26 27. These scales of different sizes, referring to different parts of the body, will be readily understood by any tailor without further explanation, as they have been in use on other apparatus.-

The operation is as follows: The apparatus is fasten ed together over the shoulder of the person whose measure is to be taken by placing the button h of section 3 in one of the slots 0 of the hinged plate on section 1, the button being placed in that slot which will best enable the apparatus to fit snugly over the shoulder. The apparatus is then secured by bringing the strap around the body and fastening it, as hereinbefore described. The sections are then adjusted to obtain the shape of the body by removing the screw-nuts and inserting the screws in the proper eyelets, the screw-nuts being then placed on the screws and tightened until they hold the sections firmly together. After the shape or fit of the person is thus obtained the apparatus is unfastened and removed. It is then laid down on pattern-paper and a pattern made from it by marking out the shape of the apparatus on the paper and then cutting it out. he pattern is then laid down on the cloth or other material out of which the garment is to be made and the body or waist cut from it, as ordinarily.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim therein as new, and dosirP tn sewurv by As evidence that I claim the foregoing as my Letters Patent. is invention I have hereunto set my hand in the An appa atus fur fitting and laying out garpresence of two Witnesses. mant s, consisting of sections 1 2 34, with eyelets WM. H. MAYER. :1, screws 1), screwnuts a, strap B, button [2, and Min hinged plate provided with slots 0, the whole mn- VVitnesses: w structed, combined, and operated as shown and AMZI J. DEAN, set forth. T. L. RIVERS. (38) 

